Debbie Retherford won Mat-Su School Board seat A over two challengers. Retherford has 3,618 votes over closest runner up Aimee Kopp’s 3,197. School Board Seat B was won by Sarah Welton, with 4,432 votes over Heather Fussell’s 3,721 votes.

The results are unofficial. Absentee ballots must be received for counting by Friday. The Mat-Su Borough election will not be certified until Oct. 16.

APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
elockyer (at) alaskapublic (dot) org | 907.550.8446 | About Ellen